Publications

Publication details [#32463]

Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. 2003. Declining an invitation: A cross-cultural study of pragmatic strategies in American English and Latin American Spanish. Multilingua 22 (3) : 225–256.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | dialect1 | gender | politeness | pragmatic competence

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish, Latin American

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This study examines the use of direct and indirect politeness strategies by native and advanced non-native speakers of Spanish when declining an invitation (role-play) in three levels of social status, controlling the variables of gender, education, age, and Spanish dialect.